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# Alchemist
G*ray hair glistening under the moonlight, a kind older human smiles softly as she squeezes her friend's shoulder before handing over a bubbling flask. As soon as he drinks it, his fresh wounds vanish, and he smiles back.*

*A joyful tabaxi takes coppers that coughing farmers extend to him, gladly handing over his brews in exchange. They down each cup in a swift gulp and soon start to jump around, brighter and more energetic than ever with no lingering traces of any illness. He vanishes during the night, following the road before the effect wears off and an angry mob goes after him.*

*A loud explosion echoes in a corner of the town for the third time this week. Exasperated neighbors shout towards the elf's workshop. Later, when goblins invade only to be met by an assault of blasts that paints the streets in crimson, no complaints can be heard.*

### Diligent Crafters
Studious and meticulous, alchemists are those who dedicate their entire lives to the craft of complicated substances, be they poison, medicine, or something else entirely. Few are those that have the capacity to develop the strange talent of imbuing their own products with arcane power, however. Those who do are the true master alchemists.

### Arcane Users
To manifest your own magic through that which you have crafted with your very own hands is the way of the alchemist, and is what separates them from wizards and sorcerers. They know only how to mix the right chemicals and how to carefully enchant them to drastically alter or improve their effects, though to master this fine art typically takes countless years of apprenticeship and a lifetime of practice.

### Mysterious and Ambitious
Regardless of their goals, alchemy takes severe dedication to learn even the more basic aspects. Alchemists live and breathe their field of study, often putting their own lives on the line for the sake of discovery. They learn recipes from their past teachers, from intelligent otherworldly creatures (such as devils), or from their own trial and error.

### Creating an Alchemist
Creating an alchemist demands a good reason for your character to pursue such an odd path. What was your character's first contact with alchemy? How did they eventually discover their own arcane prowess? Who taught you what you know? Was your parent an alchemist, or perhaps you were taught by a mysterious creature. Did you discover all that you know on your own after stumbling upon detailed instructions on how to craft your first potion?

What drives you to keep learning and practicing? What are your goals, and how does alchemy help you reach that? Are you simply looking to make money, or do you have a loved one with a peculiar condition that you seek to cure?

### Quick Build
You can make an alchemist quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the hermit background. Third, choose the enthalpy and acid splash cantrips, along with the 1st-level spells cure wounds, disguise self, longstrider, mage armor, tasha's caustic brew, and volatile substance.

### Multiclassing
To multiclass into or out of the alchemist class, your Intelligence score must be 13 or higher.

> ##### Multiclassing Rules
> Due to the nature of homebrew and this class's ongoing balancing, multiclassing is discouraged. However, it can be done with the following additional rule:

>  **Spell Slots.** The alchemist counts as a full-caster, like the wizard, for purposes of counting how many spell slots you have. At the end of a long rest, you must choose between having a spell slot or brewing a potion. Do this for every spell slot that you have. If you brew a potion, you must do so choosing an alchemist spell that is in your recipe book for each potion. You cannot brew spells from other classes.

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## Alchemist Features
As an alchemist, you gain the following class features
#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d6 per Alchemist level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 6 + your constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per Alchemist level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** none
- **Weapons:** simple weapons
- **Tools:** alchemist's supplies and herbalism kit

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- **Saving Throws:** Intelligence, Constitution
- **Skills:** Choose any three.

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#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) two simple weapons or (b) a light crossbow and 20 bolts
- (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
- One tool that you are proficient with
- An alchemist's bag
- A recipe book

Alternatively, you may start with 5d4 × 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

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##### Alchemist
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Cantrips Known | Minor Wonders | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 1st | +2 | Potionmaking, Bottled Magic | 2 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —  |
| 2nd | +2 | Deft Scavenger, Minor Wonders | 2  | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 3rd | +2 | Alchemist Specialization, Visionary | 2  | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 4th | +2  | Ability Score Improvement | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 5th | +3  | Quick Brew | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 6th | +3  | Alchemist Specialization Feature | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 7th | +3  | ─ | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 8th | +3  | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 
| 9th | +4  | ─ | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 
| 10th | +4  | Deft Scavenger Recipes  | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 
| 11th | +4  | ─ | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 
| 12th | +4  | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 
| 13th | +5  | ─ | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |  — | 
| 14th | +5  | Alchemist Specialization Feature | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |  — | 
| 15th | +5  | ─ | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  — | 
| 16th | +5  |  Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  — | 
| 17th | +6  | ─ | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  1 | 
| 18th | +6  | Deft Scavenger Recipes | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |  1 | 
| 19th | +6  |  Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |  1 | 
| 20th | +6 | Major Wonders | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |  1 |

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### Potionmaking
If an effect or game feature calls for the Spellcasting feature, the Potionmaking feature counts as such.

You have focused on the process of brewing potions and magical concoctions, and those are the means through which you channel your arcane energy, rather than directly into spells.

#### Recipe Book

At 1st level, your gain a recipe book, which contains six recipes of spell-replicating potions. When you learn an alchemist spell, it is added as a potion recipe to your recipe book. It does not contain your cantrips, as those are minor alchemical reactions infused with minuscule amounts of magic that you have committed to memory. You learn more cantrips at certain levels, as shown on the Cantrips Known column of the Alchemist table.

#### Brewing Potions
You may leave potions brewing throughout the night. At the end of a long rest, you brew a number of potions of varying intensities as shown on the Alchemist table, provided that you have alchemist's supplies and an alchemist's bag in hands. Each individual potion replicates the effects of a spell of your choice that is in your recipe book. A potion can only replicate a spell you know whose level is equal to or lower than its intensity. Using a potion is identical to casting the spell it replicates for any game effects and it takes the same time as casting the spell. They need no additional material components, only the vial itself and a free hand, thus requiring material and somatic, but not vocal components. The spell replicated is always cast at a level equal to the potion's intensity.

You must determine the spell that each potion is replicating when you brew them at the end of a long rest. So if a 3rd-level alchemist prepares four potions that replicate the Jump spell and two potions that replicate the Darkness spell, you cannot change which spells they replicate until you brew other potions. A potion that replicates a spell requiring costly components uses the costly components on its brewing process, and a potion that replicates a spell requiring concentration needs you to maintain a taxing connection to the magic, thus also requiring your concentration.

Potions remain viable until you use them or you finish a long rest. Alternatively, you can skip brewing any number of new potions to upkeep the same number of existing potions of equal intensities, keeping them viable until your next long rest.

#### Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is the spellcasting ability for your alchemist potions. You use your Intelligence when a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for one of your potions or when making an attack roll with one.

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### Bottled Magic
Also at 1st level, you can give your potions to other creatures. In order for them to use a potion, the spell it replicates mustn't require concentration, and its casting time can be no longer than 10 minutes.

The creature using it counts as the caster of the spell for all intents and purposes, but they use your spell save DC if required. If the spell calls for one or more attack rolls, the creature makes improvised weapon attacks.

#### Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain an alchemist level, you can add two alchemist spells of your choice to your recipe book. Each of these spells must be of a level equal to or lower than the highest intensity potion you can make, as shown on the Alchemist table. On your adventures, you might find other potion recipes that you can add to your recipe book. It follows the same rules as a wizard's spellbook - when you find another alchemist's recipe book, you may transfer their recipes to your own (2 hours of work per intensity level of the potion), and you can transcribe a loose recipe on a parchment to your own recipe book as well, though the latter requires 2 hours of work and 50 gp per intensity level of the potion.

### Deft Scavenger
At 2nd level, your ability to use whatever is available to its fullest potential allows you to quickly craft items with minimal proper materials. You gain the following benefits: 
- You gain proficiency with improvised weapons. 
- You may craft magical and nonmagical consumable items in a quarter of the time and for a quarter of their gold value, intead of half, following XGE's rules (p128). If crafting an item costs you 15 gold in materials or less, you can craft it as part of a long rest, but no more than 1 item a day. 
- You learn the required formulas to craft 4 potions of common or uncommon rarity of your choice. You learn 2 more recipes at 10th and again at 18th level, which can be potions of rare or lower rarity.

### Minor Wonders
Also at 2nd level, your process of trial and error has taught you much, and some of your accidents have proven to be useful. You learn how to brew 4 Minor Wonders, detailed at the end of this document. You learn more Minor Wonders once you reach certain levels, as shown in the Alchemist table.

Each wonder can be brewed so long as you have your alchemist's supplies and either your alchemist's bag or the required ingredients in hands, as well as any costly material components that the brew may call for.

You can brew a number of Minor Wonders equal to 1 + your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

### Alchemist Specialization
At 3rd level, you decide a particular skill to hone, choosing an alchemist specialization from the list of available specializations. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th and 14th levels.

> ##### Optional Rule: Batch Brew
> At your DM's discretion, Minor Wonders can be brewed in batches by spending multiple uses of the feature. When you do so, simply multiply the Minor Wonder's maximum yield by the number of uses spent. If a brew calls for costly components, multiply the cost as well. This can considerably save up time and can significantly increase the power of certain brews.

> ##### Clarification on Minor Wonders Duration
> A brew can be consumed as soon as it is finished, and retains its magic for the duration, but its effects start counting down from the moment it is brewed. For instance, if an alchemist makes the Coldest Drink, a Minor Wonder with an effect that lasts for up to 8 hours, and waits 2 hours before consuming it, the effects will now only last for up to 6 hours.

### Visionary
Also at 3rd level, you gain expertise with alchemist's supplies and herbalism kit.

### Alchemist's Versatility
At 4th level and whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can do one of the following, representing a change in focus as you use your skills and magic:
- Replace one of the Minor Wonders you have learned with another Minor Wonder for which you qualify. 
- Replace one cantrip you learned from this class's Potionmaking feature with another cantrip from the alchemist spell list.

### Quick Brew
At 5th level, your mind has gotten used to certain patterns in brewing. You learn how to recycle some of your magic and ingredients into other potions. As part of a short rest, you can turn potions made using the potionmaking feature into different potions of equal intensities, up to a number equal to your proficiency bonus. For instance, you may turn a feather fall potion into a comprehend languages potion.

### Major Wonders
At 20th level, all Minor Wonders with a brewing time of 1 or 10 minutes now have a brewing time of 1 action, and you regain all uses on a short or long rest.

Additionally, you learn the Panacea Minor Wonder, or another Minor Wonder if you already know it. It no longer requires costly material components to be brewed.

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# Alchemist Specializations

## The Experimentalist

The vanguard of alchemists, an experimentalist thinks of fun new ideas first and possible consequences later. Addicted to the thrill of discovery, they make for fascinating, if unreliable, companions, as well as terrifyingly unpredictable foes.

###  Wild Brew
When you choose this specialization at 3rd level, upon finishing a long rest and brewing potions, you can alter a potion's composition, adding extra ingredients or magical enchantments that result in a new, unpredictable effect. Whenever you brew potions through your Potionmaking feature, you can choose one of your potions that replicates a spell with a range of self to be your wild brew.

When a creature uses the the wild brew, it rolls on the Wild Magic Surge table (PHB p103) and applies the appropriate effect.

### Scratch That!
Also at 3rd level, your mind fills with ideas on how to change your already known recipes to better suit your needs.

Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can choose one of your spells in your recipe book and replace it with another spell from the alchemist spell list, so long as the new and the replaced spells meet at least one of the following criteria: 
- Both spells are the same school of magic.
- Both spells cause damage in an area of effect. 
- Both spells cause damage and call for the same type of attack roll (melee or ranged). 
- Both spells heal hit points or grant temporary hit points. 
- Both spells cause a condition.

### Wild Brew Improvement
At 6th level, you have gathered somewhat better control over your own experimental creations. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can now have up to three wild brews, or a single enhanced wild brew. When an enhanced wild brew is used, the user rolls twice on the Wild Magic Surge table and chooses which roll to use.

### Master Experimentalist
At 14th level, you can brew 3 enhanced wild brews instead of regular wild brews. 
Additionally, you can now make it so the magic of each of your enhanced wild brews magic is improved. Choose one of the following effects to enhance the spell replicated by each of them: 
- If the spell has a duration of at least 1 minute, you can double the duration.
- The spell grants temporary hit points equal to half your alchemist level.
- The spell increases the creature's movement speed by 5 feet for the spell's duration (minimum 1 minute).

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## The Apothecary

Priding themselves in having a cure for every ailment and a potion for every occasion, the apothecaries are among the most sought after alchemists by the general populace.

Specializing in keeping others alive and enhancing their natural skills, they are just as coveted by adventurers, and those who have one amongst their ranks are often thankful for their presences.

### Battle Medic
When you choose this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill, or another skill if you're already proficient, and you learn the Spare the Dying cantrip. When a creature regains hitpoints from any of your potions, such as a potion of healing made using your Quick Brew feature or a potion from your Potionmaking feature, that healing is increased by an additional amount equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.

### Healer of the People
Also at 3rd level, being constantly on the move to help others has taught you a few things about common ailments, and coming into contact with a variety of diseases has boosted your own body's defenses. You gain immunity to diseases, and you have advantage on Medicine checks made to identify a disease, determine its specifics, or to treat it through nonmagical means. You can also easily tell whether an ailment is a magical disease, a nonmagical disease, or a curse.

### Bitter Medicine
At 6th level, other creatures can now use your potions that replicate spells requiring concentration, using their own concentration instead of yours. The potion's intensity can be no higher than 2 and the potion must not directly target creatures other than the creature concentrating on its effects.

### Master Healer
At 14th level, you learn the Lesser Restoration, Remove Curse, and Greater Restoration spells, or up to other three alchemist spells of your choice if you already know them. You may brew an extra potion of intensity 5 every long rest, but it must replicate one of the three spells listed in this feature.

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## The Transmuter

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when a common person thinks of an alchemist, a transmuter is forever studying the core of all matter in the world, seeking to fundamentally understand it in order to bend it to their will.

### Transpose Matter
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn how to make a concoction capable of altering the physical properties of nonmagical objects. Over the course of 1 hour, you produce a brew capable of transforming objects composed entirely of a single material into a different material of equal or lower value of the same type, such as a rock into another rock, or a metal into another metal. More specific examples include turning clay into dirt, marble into limestone, silver into iron, gold into mercury, or mahogany wood into acacia wood.

Making said brew requires your alchemist's supplies or your alchemist's bag to be at your disposal. One batch is enough to alter up to 5 cubic feet of matter and retains its magic for up to 24 hours.

The brew needn't be used by you, but it requires magical prowess and alchemical knowledge. Any creature that is capable of casting a spell and is proficient with alchemist's supplies can use it.

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### Transmogrify
Also at 3rd level, altering the basic form of any creature becomes an easy task for you. You learn the Alter Self spell, and you can cast it as a ritual by quickly brewing a delicate potion that replicates its effects and must be consumed immediately after being finished. You may give it to another creature as if using your bottled magic feature, in which case the creature uses their own concentration.

### Enhanced Transmutation
At 6th level, you may now transmute a material into a similar material of higher value. If you do so, it reverts back to its original form in a number of hours equal to your alchemist level.

Additionally, whenever you brew a potion that replicates the Alter Self spell with your Potionmaking or Transmogrify features, it no longer requires concentration, though a creature can only benefit from one of its effects at a time.

### Master Transmuter
At 14th level, when you transmute a material into a different material of higher value, it reverts back to its original form after a number of days (instead of hours) equal to your alchemist level.

Additionally, if you transmute a Small or smaller object into a different material of higher value every day for one week, the transmutation becomes permanent. You can, for instance, turn a piece of lead into gold, or a steel sword into an adamantine sword. Doing so requires extra attention, effort, and magical prowess, and as such you may only do this to one object every week.

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## The Poisoner
Responsible for the more unsavory business conducted by alchemists, poisoners are often involved in shady business. They provide assassins and mercenaries with a myriad of toxic options to be used discreetly or in the heat of battle.

### Toxic Waste
When you finish a long rest and brew potions, you can take all the toxic residue left behind by the alchemical processes and turn it into a small vial of deadly poison. It remains viable until the end of your next long rest and then goes inert. When you do so, choose one of the following options:

- **Ingestion.** You choose a poison that needs to be orally consumed to take effect. You can mix it with any of your potions, with another liquid, with food, and other means typical of this kind of poison. When a creature ingests the poison, they must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, the creature takes 4d6 poison damage and is poisoned for 1 hour, or half as much damage and no conditions on a success. 
- **Injection.** You choose a poison that works when entering the target's body through their blood. This toxin is oily and thick, and can be used as a bonus action to coat a weapon (up to 4 uses). Once applied, it lasts until the end of your next long rest or until the weapon hits a creature. The next hit with the weapon deals an extra 1d6 poison damage and forces the target to succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be poisoned for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Constitution saving throw, ending the poisoned condition on itself on a success.

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### Unsavory Knowledge
Also at 3rd level, you have earned knowledge on how to make a variety of concoctions that shady folks seek. You gain proficiency with the Poisoner's Kit, or expertise if you're already proficient with it. You may brew any poison so long as you find the right ingredients to do so, following the Crafting an Item rules found in Xanathar's Guide of Everything (p128).

### Potent Poison
At 6th level, any poison and potion that you make by any means, such as crafted items or potions made using your potionmaking feature, now ignore resistance to poison damage.

Additionally, your Toxic Waste feature now uses d8's instead of d6's when rolling damage.

### Master Poisoner
At 14th level, when you use your Toxic Waste feature, you can further process your poisons to change their effects: 
- **Ingestion.** You can replace the poisoned condition by the blinded or deafened conditions, or apply 2 levels of exhaustion instead.
- **Injection.** You can replace the poisoned condition by the blinded, deafened, or stunned conditions, or deal an extra 2d8 poison damage instead.

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## The Demolitionist

Not all alchemists roam the lands in the shadows, making concoctions that will be used as poison or medicine, standing in the backlines, experimenting and changing the world from behind the curtains. Some are loud and have no fear of experimenting with the most volatile and unreliable of substances, using the sheer power of destruction to the best of their ability.

### Siege Expert
When you choose this archetype at 3rd-level, whenever you deal fire or thunder damage to a structure, that damage is doubled.

### Delayed Explosion
Also at 3rd-level, you know how to make a simple mechanism, magical symbol, or chemical compound, such as a pressure plate or intricate symbols, that are able to hold and release magical energy. Once per long rest, you can use this feature to cast Glyph of Warding at its base level, requiring no costly material components and without expending a spell slot or potion of any kind.

When cast using this feature, you may only deal fire or thunder damage when using Explosive Runes. When using the Spell Glyph, you can only store a spell that deals fire or thunder damage.

You can have a number of glyphs made using this feature equal to your proficiency bonus. If you make a new glyph and exceed the limit, the oldest glyph fades.

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### Eruption
At 6th-level, if a potion you make replicates a spell that deals acid, cold, or lightning damage, you can change the damage type to fire or thunder. This must be determined as soon as you brew the potion at the end of a long rest.

Additionally, you learn the Volatile Substance spell, if you do not already know it, and you may choose to have it affect a 20-foot-radius sphere when you brew it, regardless of the intensity of the potion used.

Once you reach 14th level in this class, you may change the damage type of spells that deal acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage to fire or thunder.

### Master Blaster
At 14th level, at the end of a long rest, you imbue a single one of your potions made using your Potionmaking feature with extra magic or volatile ingredients.

The potion must deal fire or thunder damage and have a duration of instantaneous. When used, instead of rolling dice to determine the damage dealt, the creature using it can instead use the highest number possible for each die.

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# Minor Wonders

#### Alter Ego Elixir
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- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  24 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** 7 different powdered fruits, each having a different color of the rainbow, water or juice. 
- **Yields:** Up to 2 drinks
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This drink constantly changes colors and emanates a different scent for every person, but is usually perceived as something comforting or alluring. 
Each time a creature drinks this, they choose one ability score. For the duration, the creature takes on the physical appearance and/or behavior that they would have if that score was 10 points higher.

The creature's newfound confidence grants them a 1d8 bonus on one ability check they make using the affected ability score. This bonus affects only one check of their choice made within the duration.

#### Coldest Drink
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- **Crafting Time:** 10 minutes
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** Dried limes and water that has been stored in a bottle kissed by a marid.
- **Yields:** Up to 5 drinks
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This bluish drink glistens with strange melancholy. Any creature that consumes this bittersweet beverage feels a chill running through their body for the duration, suffering no ill effects from being exposed to harsh hot weather and gaining resistance to the first instance of fire damage they take.

Nullifies the effects of "Warmest Drink".

#### Cure-All Elixir
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- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  24 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** A pinch of salt, a cigar smoked to ashes, a small clump of wool, an earthworm, an apple, earwax, milk, onion peels from a single onion, rare herbs, two cherries, water. 
- **Yields:** Up to 10 drinks
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This elixir was made to satisfy anyone and everyone's needs. It tastes strangely metallic and sweet, and a creature that drinks it gains the following benefits for the duration: 
- Their hair becomes pristine, strong and beautiful or, if they lack hair, beautiful hair of the same color as the creature's natural hair grows over the course of an hour, but begins falling off naturally after the effect wears off. 
- Any minor issues affecting the functioning of a creature's limbs or organs are temporarily cured. For instance, a man with a scarred leg will no longer feel pain in the region, no longer needing a cane to walk. 
- The symptoms of any magical or nonmagical diseases affecting them no longer cause discomfort, and any markings or wounds caused by the disease vanish. The disease is not cured, only masked. 
- Their skin, scales or fur glistens with vigor.

#### Liquid Courage
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- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** Alcohol, a red pepper, leaves of stimulant plants, water or more alcohol. 
- **Yields:** Up to 4 drinks
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This drink burns the throat and warms the soul. For the duration, a creature that consumes this concoction cannot be magically put to sleep, and they may add a 1d4 bonus to any saving throw made to end or resist the Frightened condition.

#### Moon-bathed Ale
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- **Crafting Time:** 10 minutes
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** A rock that has been exposed to a lunar eclipse, lavender flowers harvested under a full moon, ale. 
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
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This foamy drink sparkles on contact with the faintest bit of light. A creature that drinks this gains darkvision to a range of 30 feet.

#### Rat's Ambrosia
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- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** A piece of ginger, orange peels, sewage. 
- **Yields:** Up to 5 drinks
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This vomit-inducing beverage tastes as awful as it smells. Contrary to common sense, a creature that drinks this becomes immune to all diseases for the duration. Any non-magical diseases affecting the creature are also cured.

#### Silverwolf Brew
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- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  24 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** A wolf or lycanthrope's fur or spit, a sprig of wormwood harvested under a full moon, water. 
- **Yields:** Up to 4 drinks
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This drink looks like pure melted silver. A creature that drinks this sees in dim light as if it were bright light.

#### Warmest Drink
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- **Crafting Time:** 10 minutes
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** Alcohol, a pinch of gunpowder, spices to taste, water or milk. 
- **Yields:** Up to 5 drinks
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This frothy, cinnamon-scented beverage has a nostalgic feel to it. Any creature that consumes this beverage feels a comforting warmth for the duration, suffering no ill effects from being exposed to harsh cold weather and gaining resistance to the first instance of cold damage they take.

Nullifies the effects of "Coldest Drink".

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#### Elixir of Synchronicity
*Prerequisites: 5th level Alchemist*
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- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  1 hour from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** Sugar, lime juice, two leaves from the same tree that happened to fall at the exact same time, water. 
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
___
This bubbly drink has a sweet and sour scent. A creature who drinks this feels reality subtly shifted to their favor for the duration. The creature isn't inconvenienced by mundane delays of any sort. Bustling crowds always leave enough of a gap for them to walk where they want to, they're always the first in any waiting line (anyone already waiting in line suddenly leaves to do something else), and they quickly find what they're looking for in a store. The creature can run at full speed through dense crowds and is not affected by difficult terrain of any kind, and attacks of opportunity provoked by the creature's movement are made with disadvantage.
Additionally, the creature has advantage on all ability checks made to drive vehicles of any sort, such as carriages.

#### Elixir of Fortitude
*Prerequisites: 5th level Alchemist*
___
- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** A dry leaf, any small part of a deceased vermin, a shard of glass, water. 
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
___
This drink has a strong and unpleasant metallic taste. A creature that drinks this feels strength from beyond this realm ushering them to keep on fighting. For the duration, when damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, the creature makes a Constitution saving throw (DC = half the damage taken). On a success, it instead drops to 1 hit point and the effects of this brew end.

#### Psychedelic Delight
*Prerequisites: 5th level Alchemist*
___
- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** Mushrooms, vines with milky sap, water.
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
___
This earthy, pungent drink opens a creature's minds to new horizons while instilling them with a strong sense of individualism and general wellbeing. For the duration, the creature ignores any Madness effects currently affecting it.

The creature's mind also becomes alien in its inner workings. If someone attempts to read the creature's thoughts with an effect such as Detect Thoughts, they must succeed on an Intelligence check against your spell save DC or fail to do so and be unable to peer into the creature's mind for the next hour.

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#### Diamondshine
*Prerequisites: 5th level Alchemist*
___
- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** A sprinkle of diamond dust worth 10 gp, rare herbs, water. 
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
___
This drink shines enough to blind anyone staring directly at it. It smells like a sunny, windy day on a green hill. A creature that consumes this beverage will emit bright light in a 60-foot radius and dim light for an additional 60 feet and gains resistance to radiant damage. Any magical darkness of a level equal to or lower than half your alchemist level dissipates upon touching the light.

#### Metalsense Extract
*Prerequisites: 5th level Alchemist*
___
- **Crafting Time:** 1 minute
- **Duration:**  8 hours from the moment this brew is finished
- **Ingredients:** 1 cp, a rusty piece of iron, powdered gold, powdered silver, rare herbs, water. 
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
___
This drink tastes like pure melted iron. A creature that drinks this can sense the presence of any metals within 30 feet of them, and they can tell which metal it is as long as they know it.

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#### Panacea
*Prerequisites: 11th level Alchemist*
___
- **Crafting Time:** 8 hours
- **Duration:**  instantaneous upon consumption; viable for 24 hours after being brewed
- **Ingredients:** A drop of wyvern poison, alkahest, one leaf from each of the world's 7 rarest herbs, 1000 gp worth of miscellaneous ingredients (consumed during the brewing process)
- **Yields:** Up to 1 drink
___
One of the world's most coveted substances, the Panacea is a legendary concoction. Though gathering its ingredients is difficult, it pales in comparison to the gargantuan challenge of brewing it. The intense and difficult process requires trained hands, great skill, constant focus and precise measures to be made for hours on end.

A creature that consumes this brew is cured of all magical and nonmagical poisons, curses, and diseases affecting it, and it removes all levels of exhaustion. They are also restored to their full hit points.

A creature affected by this concoction can also choose to regain youth, having their age reduced by 1d4 years, to a minimum of 13 years.

If the Panacea is administered to a creature that has died within the last 24 hours, the creature is brought back to life. They also benefit from the other effects of this brew.

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## Items

#### Alchemist's Bag
*Adventuring gear, 30 lbs*

This wonderful bag is packed to the brim with all the materials an alchemist might need in a pinch and serves as a replacement for all and any non-costly material components that their potions, brews, and Minor Wonders might call for. This bag typically runs for 20 gold, and an alchemist is expected to occasionally replenish it with foraged ingredients and scraps found in the battlefield.

#### Colorfire Starter
*Adventuring gear, 0.5 lbs*

A myriad of substances can be ground into a powder and chucked at a bonfire to change the colors of the flames. With 4 sp worth of materials and alchemist's supplies in hands, you can make a powder capable of turning a campfire's fire blue, green, purple, white, or an even brighter orange for up to 8 hours. Different colors are possible with some experimentation.

#### Invisible Ink
*Adventuring gear*

This 1-ounce bottle of ink starts out tar-like in color, but all writing made using it vanishes in a few minutes. The maker of the ink determines the conditions that will turn the ink visible again, which can be (but are not limited to):
- The ink being wet. 
- The ink being exposed to a specific kind of light (such as that from the light cantrip).
- The ink being within a certain temperature range.

Such inks are rare and so are those able to craft them. A single bottle typically runs for 40 gp.

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##### Cantrips (0 Level)
- Acid Splash
- Create Bonfire 
- Enthalpy*
- Fire Bolt
- Green-Flame Blade
- Light
- Magic Stone
- Mending
- Poison Spray
- Ray of Frost
- Shocking Grasp
- Thunderclap

##### 1st Level
- Animal Friendship
- Burning Hands
- Charm Person
- Chromatic Orb
- Comprehend Languages
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Disguise Self
- Expeditious Retreat
- Faerie Fire
- False Life
- Feather Fall
- Fog Cloud
- Gift of Alacrity
- Grease
- Ice Knife
- Identify
- Illusory Script
- Jump
- Longstrider
- Mage Armor
- Purify Food and Drink
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Ray of Sickness
- Sleep
- Speak with Animals
- Tasha's Caustic Brew
- Tasha's Hideous Laughter
- Thunderwave
- Volatile Substance*

##### 2nd Level
- Aid
- Alter Self
- Barkskin
- Blindness/Deafness
- Borrowed Knowledge
- Calm Emotions

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- Continual Flame
- Darkness
- Darkvision
- Dragon's Breath
- Enhance Ability
- Enlarge/Reduce
- Fortune's Favor
- Gentle Repose
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Knock
- Lesser Restoration
- Levitate
- Magic Mouth
- Magic Weapon
- Melf's Acid Arrow
- Nystul's Magic Aura
- Pill of Wondrous Agility*
- Protection from Poison
- Pyrotechnics
- Ray of Enfeeblement
- Scorching Ray
- See Invisibility
- Shatter
- Spider Climb

##### 3rd Level
- Animate Dead
- Ashardalon's Stride
- Catnap
- Daylight
- Dispel Magic
- Elemental Weapon
- Enemies Abound
- Feign Death
- Fireball
- Flame Arrows
- Fly
- Gaseous Form
- Glyph of Warding
- Haste
- Intellect Fortress
- Nondetection
- Protection from Energy
- Revivify
- Sleet Storm
- Stinking Cloud
- Tongues
- Water Breathing
- Water Walk

##### 4th Level
- Blight
- Charm Monster
- Confusion
- Death Ward

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- Elemental Bane
- Fabricate
- Freedom of Movement
- Giant Insect
- Grasping Vine
- Greater Invisibility
- Guardian of Nature
- Ice Storm
- Polymorph
- Stone Shape
- Stoneskin
- Vitality Infusion*
- Wall of Fire

##### 5th Level
- Awaken
- Cloudkill
- Creation
- Contagion
- Greater Restoration
- Hold Monster
- Immolation
- Legend Lore
- Raise Dead
- Reincarnate
- Skill Empowerment

##### 6th Level
- Create Homunculus
- Disintegrate
- Eyebite
- Flesh to Stone
- Harm
- Heal
- Heroes' Feast
- Magic Jar
- Primordial Ward
- True Seeing
- Wind Walk

##### 7th Level
- Create Magen
- Draconic Transformation
- Etherealness
- Regenerate
- Resurrection
- Sequester
- Simulacrum
- Symbol

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##### 8th Level
- Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
- Antipathy/Sympathy
- Clone
- Feeblemind
- Glibness
- Incendiary Cloud
- Maddening Darkness
- Mind Blank

##### 9th Level
- Foresight
- Invulnerability
- Power Word Heal
- Shapechange
- True Polymorph

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# New Spells

#### Enthalpy
*Transmutation cantrip*
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- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 30 feet
- **Components:** S
- **Duration:**  instantaneous
___
By waving your hand and pointing at a substance within range, you can make quick changes to the pressure, energy and temperature of it and its surroundings, changing its current state. You can turn up to 1 pint of liquid that is not being carried into a different state, such as water into ice or mercury into vapor.

Alternatively, you may change the substance's temperature so it's on the edge of changing states, such making a cup of water instantly boiling hot or freezing cold.

#### Volatile Substance
*1st-level Evocation*
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 60 feet
- **Components:** S, M (delicate chemicals prone to combusting)
- **Duration:**  instantaneous
___
You toss a vial of highly volatile chemical substances enhanced with magic, which detonates in a point within range, causing it to explode and forcing each creature in a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on that point to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 2d8 fire damage and is knocked prone if they are Medium or smaller, or take half as much damage and no further effects on a successful one.

**At higher levels.** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the area changes to a 10-foot-radius sphere.

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#### Pill of Wondrous Agility
*2nd-level Transmutation*
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** Touch
- **Components:** S, M (a plethora of herbs)
- **Duration:**  24 hours
___
You fuse the ingredients with magic, shaping them into 4 pills that retain their magic for the duration. A creature can take a pill in their turn, no action required. Taking a pill gives the creature a sudden burst of energy, increasing their movement speed by 20 feet until the start of their next turn.

A creature can take multiple pills to stack their effects, to a maximum number on a turn equal to their Constitution modifier (minimum 1). If a creature exceeds that number, they take 1d4 poison damage for each pill taken beyond their limit and must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be poisoned for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

**At Higher Levels.** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the movement speed increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 2.

#### Vitality Infusion
*4th-level Transmutation*
___
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** Self
- **Components:** S, M (fruits and herbs used for medicinal tea)
- **Duration:**  1 hour
___
By consuming this sickly sweet potion, a creature regains 4d4+4 hit points and gains the same amount of temporary hit points that last for the duration. Additionally, their hit point maximum cannot be reduced, and any effects currently reducing their hit point maximum are ended.

**At higher levels.** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the healing and temporary hit points increase by 1d4+1 per slot level above 4th.

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## Artwork Credits
> **Cover:** Fragged Kingdom: Kaltoran Alchemist, by clonerh on Deviantart

> **Pg 2:** The Alchemist, by u/KibblesTasty on Reddit

> **Pg 3:** Runaway Alchemist, by Aurore Folny on ArtStation

> **Pg 4:** Apothecary, by Chris Cole on fineartamerica

> **Pg 5:** Blindeye Apothecary, by Aleksandra Wojtas on ArtStation

> **Pg 7:** Mad Scietist, by BryanSyme on Deviantart

> **Pg 8:** The Alchemist, by Grafit-Art on Deviantart

> **Pg 9:** Thergan the alchemist, by AnthonyLM on CGSociety

> **Pg 10:** Mad Alchemist, by Tobias Rhein on https://www.tobias-rhein.de/mad-alchemist/

> **Pg 11:** Madcap Experiment, by Joseph Meehan on ArtStation.

> **Pg 13:** Potion 3D Prop, by Abyss Santos on ArtStation

> **Pg 14:** Antidote, by AlexanderKorolev on Deviantart

> **Pg 16:** Healing Potion, by Tung Do Thanh on ArtStation